St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
Photographed on the Spot, as They
Are, They May Be Relied Upon as
True to Nature.
Pleasant Personal Paragraphs Which
Are intended to Amuse Everybody
and Offend Nobody.


One of the ball players who has just re-
turned from Usage, Ia, says that one of the
Usage girls smiled on Duryea one day and
he dropped in a dead faint.
Postmaster Day is cOngratulating himself
that he is about the only holder OF an i'm
portant government position that is able to
hold his sit from the former administration,
The most intimate friends of ALT.
Rhodus, business manager of the North
western Sportsman. say that he was
once the honored superintendent of Sun
day school in a small village in Missouri,
and while he held down that position was
noted for his work as home missionary.
1t is only since he was called to his new
walk in life that he has taken on the air of a
sportsman which now sits so gracefully
upon him.
The rumor that Manager Lew Scott and
| George Walsh were to form an amateur
| theatrical company, in which they would
take the parts of Damon and Pythias. is
now said to be wholly without foundation.
After one or two rehearsals they came to
the conclusion that there was no use in ag-
tating the public with such friendly set-tos
as they would be compelled to give in the
proper enactment of these parts, and the
| scheme was given up.
Unless DR.. MarkOe is incorrect in his con-
lecture that Judge Smons is mistaken in
deciding that DR.. Quinn was duly elected
coroner, that celebrated case known as the
/ Quinn Markoe contest is at last ended.
| 1t has not generally been made public,
but is now given out as cold fact, that
Ehle Allen has recently written play. 1t
| is tragedy in one act, entitled ''These are
Some of Our People"
| Once more it should be stated that John
x. Davidson will not assume the manage
ment of the new theater which is to be re-
modelled out OF the old Exposition rink Oh
Fourth street. Mr.. Davidson has decided
that it will be impossible to complete this
building this season.
| People who hear sweet sounds along on
| West Third street during the small hours of
the morning these warm spring days, need
feel no alarm. 1t is only Mike Cummings
and Ed Henderson singing the praises OF
the Detroit base ball players.
! j. II. Strouse says he has his opinions in
regard to operas and proposes to express
them, too, like a free American citizen.
He would prefer, however, not to have his
| name substituted or changed for that of
| the great waltz and opera ceEnpoSer- He
does not object for himself, but thinks
that Johann might have cause for COM
plant
When J. J. Hill sent his men across the
river with their picks and shovels, and
under cover of a swamp land grant and
the darkness. fenced up 300 or 400 acres of
good mud and water, he acted very much
as the late Mr.. Merrill. the general man
ager of the Milwaukee IL st. Paul road,
used to do when he wanted to get the adj
vantage over the weak little Sioux City
road years ago. In those days. through
IL, +I 20 f,11 IO,;.~ =
Minneapolis. he got everything ready, and
about - o'clock at night a gang of
men would light down ON the little Sioux
City road like locusts on wheat field when
it is young and green, and in the morning
E. F. Drake and the rest OF the officers of
the latter road would wake up and find
frog in their road. InjunctionS fol-
lowed, and a multitude of other legal pro-
ceedings, but the frog remained all the
same. In Mr.. Hills case no legal proceed
ingS are likely to be resorted to, and the
fence in the swamp, like the frog, will re-
main
Capt. Berkey says he has no doubt that
the favorable report made by Mr.. Rundlett
as to the department of our corporation
attorney, when on his recent visit to
Omaha. is substantially correct. The cap
tain says that when he commenced
the reformation of Mr.. Murray about
quarter of a century ago,
he had not much faith in being successful
but he determined to scatter the mustard
seed around freely, and though he knew
we'll enough that most of it would fall upon
stony places, he hoped that small as the
little seed was. that it would ''catch on
somewhere and produce results. He feels
considerable confidence that he has not
la} in oil 10
stands that the corporation attorney having
succeeded so we'll in his department at
Omaha that he proposes visit to Chicago
and later on visit to New York. He eX-
presses some doubt about this. Chicago the
captain regards as one of the worst cities in
the history of the world since the time
when those two cities in ancient times were
wiped out of existence. He expresses great
doubt as to the ACCESSIBILITY of allowing the
object of his solictude to go so far away
from home, and where he will be surrounded
with so many temptations. He fears the
little mustard seed could not hold its moor
ings.
j. b. Cook, the well-known omnibus
man. was treated the other day to new
sensation. Mr.. Cook has lived in Mime
sofa for many years. He remembers the
time when the oX-teams or Red river carts
used to come down here from that far-off
country, and Indian traders were numerous
| in the streets of this town. When the rail-
roads reached st. Paul, Mr.. Cook being in the
livery and general transportation business.
naturally received the usual courteSieS from
the railroads All these years he has been
the recipient of similar favors, and in re-
| turn has granted to railroad men CORE
spending courtesies. Last Tuesday. not
thinking it was the 9Th OF April. and that
the interstate commerce bill on that day
went into effect. he boarded the Milwaukee
& St. Paul train to go to Minneapolis.
| When the conductor came along Mr.. Cook
| handed out his annual" which the con-
ductor coolly put in his pocket and de-
manded the usual fare. At first Mr.. Cook
was inclined to become indignant, but the
interstate commerce bill came over him
and he smothered his anger and handed out
the silver. He don't think the law is a
good one. Still fellow ought not to COM
plain if he is made to pay no oftener than
once in fifteen or twenty years.
Judd Rice enjoys the reputation of being
the first conductor that ever run train out
of ST. Paul. Yet he is young man and
| handsome. too.
Andy Delany, who went up to Ashland,
! thinks he picked up some tall stuff" as he
says, in that town. He claims to feel very
/ pleasant about it.
Society Jargon i'm Warrington.
The society girls at Washington. says the
correspondent of the Boston Herald, do not
consider it the proper thing to speak English
with the slightest tinge of Amelicanism. A
year ago society unanimously adopted what
| is known as the English accent, and to an
outsider there was not much of any differ